Subject: Re: Curious about functional programming
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: 2000/07/24
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3173456224672927@naggum.net>
* Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <frodef@acm.org>
| Maybe CL should have included the ability to declare a function as
| "functional" (side-effect-free, that is).
Most Lisp compilers include such a mechanism, but the guarantee is
even harder to maintain and guarantee than typing, and it should not
affect correctness, so nothing is lost by considering this as part
of the great optimization problem.
#:Erik
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